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Maybe a good occasion to go through some of<br />the highlights during this time frame:<br /><br />* Six mainline releases v6.7 - v6.12, all running on the ia64 hardware<br />we have available for testing ([1]). Not to speak of all the RCs and<br />test builds during merge windows tested in between. To have a<br />forward-look on possible build problems between RCs and during merge<br />windows an auto-builder for Linux mainline was set up, that builds<br />mainline for ia64 each day. This also shortens the time frame for us to<br />check for a cause when problems arise.<br /><br />[1]: <a href="http://epic-linux.org/#">http://epic-linux.org/#</a>!testing-effort/tested-kernels-table.md<br /><br /><br />* The hp-sim platform was reinstated for Linux up to mainline, allowing<br />everybody to run ia64 software (kernels and userland) on non-ia64<br />hardware, thanks to ski maintained by Sergei Trofimovich. This is for<br />example used for our Linux stable R(C) auto-builder to test-boot each<br />kernel after it was built and run some userland tools for a test. By<br />involving ski for this auto-builder it can not only demonstrate build<br />problems, but also problems during runtime, as shown already in the<br />corresponding issues ([2]).<br /><br />[2]: <a href="https://github.com/linux-ia64/linux-stable-rc/issues">https://github.com/linux-ia64/linux-stable-rc/issues</a><br /><br /><br />* Two Linux distributions keep support for ia64: T2/SDE ([3]) and EPIC<br />Slack [(4)].<br /><br />[3]: <a href="https://t2sde.org/">https://t2sde.org/</a><br /><br />[4]: <a href="http://epic-slack.org/">http://epic-slack.org/</a><br /><br /><br />* Also <a href="http://epic-linux.org/">http://epic-linux.org/</a> was established to allow interested people<br />to find current and relevant information about Linux/ia64 at a central<br />place.<br /><br /><br />Maybe someone can help me here with the history, but was there another<br />architecture that has been kicked out of the kernel, that received that<br />level of continuation afterwards?<br /><br />We'll see where this goes.<br /><br /><br />Find the last Linux/ia64 update on [5].<br /><br />[5]: <a href="https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5d1b5880-9bdc-4b04-81dc-341df7b02177@web.de/">https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5d1b5880-9bdc-4b04-81dc-341df7b02177@web.de/</a><br /><br />****<br /><br />Thank you all for your hard work on Linux!<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Frank et al<br /><br /></pre></td><td width="32" rowspan="2" class="c" valign="top"><img src="/images/icornerr.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="\" /></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="bottom"> 聽 </td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="bottom">聽</td><td class="c" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 0px"><img src="/images/bcornerl.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="\" /></td><td class="c">聽</td><td class="c" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 0px"><img src="/images/bcornerr.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="/" /></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" colspan="2"> 聽 </td><td class="lm">Last update: 2024-11-20 16:30 聽聽 [from the cache]<br />漏2003-2020 <a href="http://blog.jasper.es/"><span itemprop="editor">Jasper Spaans</span></a>|hosted at <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=9a8e99d24cf9">Digital Ocean</a> and my Meterkast|<a href="http://blog.jasper.es/categories.html#lkml-ref">Read the blog</a></td><td>聽</td></tr></table><script language="javascript" src="/js/styleswitcher.js" type="text/javascript"></script></body></html>